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Billy Bob Thornton, A Simple Plan: Abrilliant, complex performance gets Thorntonnominated for a film virtually nobody saw. Toobad, because A Simple Plan was a fantasticdrama--the type of movie Hollywood should producebut purposely abandons (note the lack ofpromotion). As the lead character's slightlyretarded brother, Thorton convinces us that heultimately cannot find a reason to live when aninnocent scheme spirals into disaster--andconvinces him that life has just become one lieafter another...
...have a novel in you." Gray tells the audience that he was skeptical, but decided to give it a try. Gray felt, however, that he was "too extroverted" to be able to write, so he applied to a writers' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the same town upon which Thorton Wilder based Our Town when he was a resident there...
Good things come to those who wait, however, and the second one-act is a decided improvement on the first. In The Long Christmas Dinner, Thorton Wilder returns to Our Town territory as he examines the progression of time through a series of New England Christmas dinners with the Bayard family. While the moral (the more things change, the more they stay the same) is conventional, a number of strong performances and stark though effective staging immediatly command our attention...
...mull over what they have just seen. But Frye provides an admirable bridge between the play's various moments, her whimsical smile and wry analysis investing the scenes with a relevance that would be lacking if the play ran without a narrator. The Playwright resembles the Stage Manager from Thorton Wilder's Our Town, but Frye plays her role with an emotional immediacy that reminds the audience that Hansberry is constantly discussing events from her own life...
...Santa Fe Bo." Tudor Williams is "Wanderin' Wills." Real hoboes they know include a man named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died early. "I'm not so lonely out here," he says quietly. Thorton left Tulsa last October, aiming to get a Mohawk haircut, see America and eventually settle down as a policeman...